2025 Liverpool parade attack

2025 Liverpool parade attack
2025 Liverpool parade attack
Location	53°24′22″N 2°59′37″W / 53.4062°N 2.9935°W; Water Street, Liverpool, England
Date	26 May 2025 ; 6 pm (BST)
Weapon	Ford Galaxy
Injured	130+
Perpetrator	Paul Doyle
Charges	Dangerous driving; Unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (3 counts); Causing unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (7 counts); Attempted unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (19 counts); Affray (1 count);
Convicted	1
Judge	Andrew Menary KC

On 26 May 2025, Paul Doyle drove a grey Ford Galaxy into a crowd on Water Street in Liverpool, England, during a victory parade celebrating Liverpool Football Club's 2024–25 Premier League title win. Over 130 people were injured; at least fifty were taken to hospital, including four children.

Merseyside Police arrested Doyle at the scene and issued seven charges: one count of dangerous driving; two counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm; two counts of causing unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm; and two counts of attempted unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on 30 May and was remanded in custody. On 26 November 2025, at the start of his trial, Doyle pleaded guilty to all 31 offences, and on 16 December, he was sentenced to 21 years and 6 months in prison.